47. I thought this paragraph made a good point.

Whether this one article is accurate or not is as irrelevant as your opinion of it, or mine. What does matter however, is that this is the growing perception of us around the world and almost everything we do as a nation makes that impression stronger.

When your nation keeps repeated doing really stupid stuff it's hard for people who live in other nations to recognize that you are actually really really smart and not as stupid as your nation's actions make you look.